let's talk about tryndamere for a second

is he op? nah. is he god damned infuriating to play against? affirmative.

first thing i want to address is his passive. it's a nightmare for anyone unfortunate enough to lane against him. if you're stuck leashing your jungle and he goes straight to lane you can pretty much forget about doing anything to him. he will just crit you into oblivion at level 1, get first blood, and then proceed to roflstomp you. completely bogus. why give anyone free crit like that? it's seriously mind boggling. and before comes into talks, his crit isn't free. he either has to use crit runes or buy a crit item. not free.

now lets talk about his e. why on earth does it allow you to jump over walls? it being a very reliable gapcloser is already enough. this ability almost assuredly guarantees tryndamere escapes from everything aside from 3 of your team members closing in on all escape routes. it makes it so that the only way to stop him from splitting is by never leaving the lane. and guess what? chances are you won't kill him. just take away the wall hop on it and almost all of the annoying lack of counterplay a mid to late game tryndamere has is dealt with.

last thing i want to talk about is his ult. not inherently op by itself. sure, its 6 seconds of fuck you. but that's not what makes it op. what makes it op is the rest of his kit in conjunction with his ult. because he can escape anything with e+ult aside from hard cc, tryndamere has no incentive to build anything BUT glass cannon. so now you have a glass cannon who is unkillable for 6 seconds, free to do whatever he wants. and if his ult is almost over guess what the guy can do? e over a wall, q heal himself, and then wait until another minion wave shows and just vamp back up and go back to splitpushing.

i think its hilarious that veigar got nerfed for "lack of counterplay" when tryndamere's only counterplay is ending the game before he gets .

not to mention the absolute HAVOC he wreaks on teamfights mid/late. you have two choices. focus him, force his ult, and blow all of your cc on him and kill him, thus leaving everyone else on the enemy team to roflstomp you while you do that, or ignore him, focus his team, and watch as he very quickly melts your carries, wins his teamfight, and e's away.